News from October 2019
By DOE Newswire | Oct 17, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement on Energy Secretary Rick Perry’s announcement that he will depart the Administration...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - DeRon Parrish and Andre Parrish, both of Morgantown, West Virginia, have admitted to firearms charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 17, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Full Committee markup of the Lower Drug Costs Now Act and bills to strengthen Medicare coverage for beneficiaries...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 17, 2019
News Release: TAOS, N.M. - The Bureau of Land Management is continuing ignitions this week at the Wind Mountain prescribed fire in the Río Grande del Norte National Monument. Approximately 300 acres have been completed out of 735 acres. This project is located on the south side of Cerro del Aire (Wind Mountain), 4 miles northeast of Tres Piedras, N.M.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 17, 2019
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement on the White House’s announcement that the G-7 will be hosted at Trump’s Doral resort...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 17, 2019
News Release: Dear Secretary Azar: Medicare applies a statutory formula to provide more than $15 billion in Graduate Medical Education (GME) subsidies to hospitals in an effort to accomplish two things: 1) pay the salary of residents (Direct GME); and 2) compensate hospitals for the indirect costs of operating residency...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2019
News Release: Abingdon, VIRGINIA - Three Sarasota, Florida residents, who previously admitted to traveling in a stolen vehicle and committing the May 2018 robbery of the I-81 Travel Plaza in Wythe County, were sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Abingdon. United States Attorney Thomas T. Cullen made the announcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2019
News Release: GREAT FALLS-A Browning man who admitted hitting a woman in the face after their vehicle struck an ambulance on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation was sentenced today to 18 months of probation, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that a federal grand jury in Raleigh has returned indictments charging EDWIN MONROY-ABASOLO, age 30, of Mexico, JOSE QUISTIAN-LUPES, age 34, of Mexico, and OSCAR GEOVANI OLIVERA-HERNANDEZ, age 26, of Honduras with Illegal Reentry of a Deported Alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2019
News Release: Department of Justice Prosecuted a Record-Breaking Number of Immigration-Related Cases in Fiscal Year 2019.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 17, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) will deliver the following remarks this morning, expressing his concern with the policy and rushed process of Speaker Pelosi’s plan, which is being considered at the full committee markup.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2019
News Release: PADUCAH, Ky. - United States Chief Judge Greg Stivers has sentenced Leslie Lewis to 2 years imprisonment, 3 years of supervised release following the sentence, and ordered him to pay restitution of $169,322 for theft of public money.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 17, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - On the heels of his Congressional Delegation to Mexico City, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) today received a letter from President Andrés Manuel López Obrador that details the steps Mexico is taking to implement its labor justice reform law. Mexico’s Undersecretary...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2019
News Release: Love had four prior felony convictions.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 17, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) announced today that the Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee will hold a legislative hearing on Thursday, Oct. 24, at 9:30 am in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building entitled “Reauthorizing Brand USA and the U.S. SAFE WEB Act."
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 17, 2019
News Release: EPW Chairman expresses deep concerns with any legislative effort to extend or expand the electric vehicle tax credit.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 17, 2019
Release: Congresswoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY), Chair of the House Appropriations Committee, delivered the following remarks at the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee's oversight hearing on HUD's Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) program.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 17, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement after the full Committee voted to favorably advance H.R. 3, the Lower Drug Costs Now Act, and four bills to strengthen Medicare coverage for beneficiaries...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2019
News Release: Bangor, Maine: A former Brewer resident pleaded guilty today in federal court in Bangor to possessing images of child exploitation, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 17, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement after the full Committee voted to favorably advance H.R. 3, the Lower Drug Costs Now Act, and four bills to strengthen Medicare coverage for beneficiaries...
